Invisible Environment on Nostr: The state is defined in its exteriority. It is self-perpetuating of the boundaries of ...

The state is defined in its exteriority. It is self-perpetuating of the boundaries of the state. It creates boundaries, and steps outside them in order to create them. This services the finite game that is state control. The state is not in service of the infinite, though it may have began as an attempt to organize life in accordance with the good. The state steps outside of its boundaries and introduces forced variation.

For a system to function adaptively, it needs to introduce a certain amount of entropy in order to introduce variation. When James Carse talked about the need for religion to be open instead of ideological, this is the genuine introduction of variation, cycling through integration, disintegration, and re-integration. This revitalizes systems through natural variation and is in service of the infinite so long as it is not monopolized by state control.

But the forced variation of the state is only to insure the success of the state within the finite game. Within the boundaries it creates. The system is a closed loop with synthetic variation. Through stepping outside of the juridical system to change the order, the state, along with its technique and its bureaucracies, perpetuate themselves in order to win their well-defined, finite game.

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